Scope & Sequence
- Foundations and Diversity Unit
- Early Civilizations
- Silk Road, Mongols, Black Death
- Empires/Regional Civilizations/Globalization
- Renaissance, Age of Exploration, Reformation
Essential Learnings
World History 1 addresses the broad patterns and terms that students will need to know and use and examines world history from prehistory to the pre-modern era. Students will...
- Understand the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics and location of places, regions and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface.
- Understand and apply knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals, and themes in world history in order to evaluate how history shapes the present and future.
- Understand and analyze causal factors that have shaped major events in history
- Understand that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events
- Use critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions